Milky Way Central Region

 

Outstanding photograph of the Milky Way's central region, including constellations Sagittarius, Scorpius, Ophiuchus, and Scutum. This photograph exhibits a large number of Messier objects: M6, M7, M8, M9, M16, M17, M18, M20, M21, M22, M23, M24, M25, M28, M54, M69, and M70.

Annoted map version of this image

This image was obtained by Bill Keel of the University of Alabama. More Messier object images from Bill Keels collection.

Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

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